GOP Lawmaker: Agriculture Industry Is Concerned About Trump's Tariffs

On Monday, Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) spoke about the impact of tariffs on farmers.

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00:00What did you hear back home over the recess about tariffs and the impact on your constituents?

00:09Well, I'm a farmer and I represent an agricultural area district.

00:14We depend on exports a lot, so there's certainly some concern being expressed to me

00:19by people in the agricultural industry about potential impacts of what's going on.

00:26What kind of impacts?

00:27You know, retaliatory actions that could be taken by other countries.

00:33We've experienced that in the past, and people are just concerned that could be happening again.

00:38But, you know, there's nothing certain right now, so it's just an expression of what could possibly be coming.

00:47How fearful are people about losing their businesses?

00:51Well, there's a lot of challenges in a country right now, as you probably know,

00:56and so this is just one more thing that makes agriculture and farming more or less profitable.

01:04So that's certainly a lot of concern.

01:07Did the president pull back from these completely, do you think?

01:09Well, what we've been saying all along, what I've been saying when I hear people,

01:13we'd love to have a level playing field with our trading partners.

01:18And so if this can get us there, you know, people are supportive of the end goal.

01:22Just how we go about it is what a lot of questions about that.

01:26Appreciate your time.